Re: Fixed directory locations in installs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fixed directory locations in installs
Date: 2004-05-03 14:55:42
Message-ID: 13347.1083596142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Not sure how we can do this for Unix except perhaps probe PATH.

Huh? We have always determined the full path of the executable ---
see FindExec().

I guess what you are saying is we should have a configure-time option to
address configured directories via relative paths from the executable's
directory, rather than absolute paths? Seems reasonable ...

regards, tom lane

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